China in Convulsion, Nide 1F. H. Revell Company, 1901 - 770 sivua " ... The sensational details of the alleged massacre in the British Legation on the 7th of July [1900] ... when followed by a knowledge of the principal facts, riveted the attention of all nations. The absolute novelty, the intense dramatic interest, the world-wide scope, and the far-reaching consequences of the events which have taken place in China combine to differentiate the Convulsion in that Empire from anything in history ... It is the design of the present work, while giving in considerable detail the events connected with the siege in Peking, to sketch the important outlines of the events to which that formed the climax ..."--Preface, p. ix-x |
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afternoon American Legation attack Baron von Ketteler barricade Boxers British Legation British marines brought building bullets canal cannon Ch'ien Mên Ch'üan Chihli China Chinese Empire Chinese Government Chinese soldiers Christians Church city wall Claude MacDonald Conger danger decree defence Edict Emperor Empress Dowager fact fire Foreign Ministers French Legation German guard Hanlin Hsü Hunan Imperial City Italian Japanese June Jung Lu killed Kuang last night Lega Legation Street letter Manchu Manchuria ment messenger Methodist compound mission missionaries morning officials once Palace party Peking premises Prince Ch'ing Prince Su Prince Tuan protection province railway refugees reply reported rifle Roman Catholic Russian sand bags sent Shanghai Shantung shells siege Sir Claude Sir Robert Hart soon T'ung Chou taken Taku forts Taotai Tientsin tion to-day Tongku Treaty of Tientsin Tsung Li Yamen Tung Fu Wang Fu Western whole wounded yards yesterday Yü Hsien
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Sivu 339 - In the last ten days the soldiers and militia have been fighting, and there has been no communication between us, to our great anxiety.
Sivu 200 - Spirit Soldiers will descend from Heaven and sweep the Empire clean of all foreigners. Then will the gentle showers once more water our lands...
Sivu 93 - Assuredly it is not foreign intercourse that is ruining China, but this dreadful poison. Oh, the grief and desolation it has wrought to our people! A hundred years ago the curse came upon us more blasting and deadly in its effects than the Great Flood or the scourge of the Fierce Beasts, for the waters assuaged after nine years, and the ravages of the man-eaters were confined to one place. Opium has spread with frightful rapidity and heart-rending results through the provinces. Millions upon millions...
Sivu 341 - ... but at the time of leaving the legations there must on no account whatever be taken any single armed foreign soldier, in order to prevent doubt and fear on the part of the troops and people, leading to untoward incidents.
Sivu 53 - ... local officials and compel them to give right to the Christian, represents the case as one of persecution, when the French consul is appealed to. Then is redress rigorously extorted, without the least reference to the justice of the demand. The assurance that this kind of interference on the part of a foreign power is certain to follow leads, of course, to the grossest abuses being perpetrated by the Christians, and while the French missionary may go far, the native Christian goes infinitely...
Sivu 50 - Yamen have gathered (respecting the duties imposed on them by their priesthood), these persons found as it were among us an undetermined number of States within the State. How, under these conditions, can we hope that a durable understanding should be established, and to prevent the governors and the governed uniting against them in common hostility? The Prince and the members of the Yamen are impressed with a desire to ward off from henceforth eventualities so menacing.
Sivu 341 - Tientsin road that we should be very apprehensive of misadventure. We now request Your Excellencies to first take your families and the various members of your staffs, and leave your Legations in detachments. We should select trustworthy officers to give close and strict protection, and you should temporarily reside in the...
Sivu 76 - If in the future you wish t6 preach your doctrine in China, you must drive the Japanese back to their own country ; then you will be allowed to preach your Holy Gospel throughout the country without let or hindrance.
Sivu 200 - If you gain five adherents to the faith, your whole family will be absolved from all evils; and if you gain ten adherents to the faith, your whole village will be absolved from all calamities. Those who gain no adherents to the cause shall be decapitated; for until all foreigners have been exterminated, the rain can never visit...
Sivu 93 - In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and wealth of its victims. The ruin of the mind is the most woeful of its many deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles the will, saps the strength of the body, renders the consumer incapable of performing his regular duties, and unfit for travel from one place to another. It consumes his substance and reduces the miserable wretch to poverty, barrenness, and senility. Unless something...